Found 2 collections related to African American authors -- Interviews

The London-based Transcription Centre was a cultural organization that produced and recorded audio interviews and programs related to arts and culture in Africa and across the African diaspora. The Transcription Centre Interviews with African Writers audio collection consists of 108 audio interviews and programs recorded between 1962 and 1970. Featuring African, African American, and West Indian writers, artists, scholars, politicians, musicians, and other significant cultural figures, the recordings focus on African literature, art, history, politics, culture, and contemporary issues. The organization was later discovered to be funded by a CIA front organization. less

James Baldwin (1924-1987) was an African American novelist, essayist, intellectual, and activist, renowned as one of the world's most influential voices of the twentieth century. The James Baldwin audio collection consists of thirty-five audio recordings of mostly interviews and speeches given by Baldwin from the 1960s to 1980s. less